Water-actuated pumping apparatus.



'PATENTED NOV. 20, 1906.

A. E.'JON-BS. WATERAOTUATBD PUMPING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED D3012, 1905 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

PATENTED NOV. 20, 1906.

A. E. JONES. WATER AGTUATED PUMPING APPARATUS.

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2 SHEETS-SHEET2 ALFRED E. JONES, OF INDIAN ORCHARD, MASSACHUSETTS.

WATER-ACTUATED PUMPING APPARATUS.

No. sec, 504.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 20, 1906.

Application filed December 12, 1905. Serial No. 291,427.

To all whom it may concer'n:

Be it known that I, ALFRED E. JONES, a British subject, and a residentof Indian Orchard, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts,have invented cer tain new and useful Improvements in Water- ActuatedPumping Apparatuses, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescrlption.

This invention relates to improvements in a water-actuated pumpingapparatus of a description com rising a rocking support havingoppositeFy located buckets made with valved outlets and a reversiblespout for alternately delivering water from the source of constantsupply into said buckets, means for alternately and reversely openingand closing the valves for the buckets, means for successively reversingthe spout for de-' livery always into the bucket, which is elevated bythe rocking support, and a doubleplunger pump connected with the rockingsupport and operable for delivering a stream of water through a suitablepipe to any placehigher than the.location of the apparatus, the waterflowing alternately into the buckets constituting the motive power ofthe machine.

The invention consists in certain constructions of devices and partsincluded in the apparatus of the class above indicated for utility andadvantage, all as hereinafter fully described and explained, and setforth in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the pumping apparatusas in a situation for use. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of an upperportion of the apparatus as taken substantially on the line 2 2, Fig. 1.Fig. 3 is a sectional viewthrough one of the buckets and its valve andshowing the valve-rod, its guide, and adjustable stop. Fig. 4 is avertical sectional view through one side portion of the double-plungerpump and as taken on the line 4 4, Fig. 1.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all ofthe views.

In the drawings, A represents the supporting structure of the apparatus,the same comprising base-pieces 10, uniting cross-girder 12, theopposite uprights 13 13, and oblique braces 14 14.

B represents a rocking beam or bar journaled at 15 for an oscillatorymovement on a horizontal axis at and between the upper extremities oftheframe-uprights 13 13. This rocking beam has pairs of integral or rigidlycarried arms 16 16, extending from its opposite ends at right angles tothe axis of oscillation, which have seats at 17 for the reception of thealined opposite side trunnions 18 18 of the buckets O 0, thesetrunnionseats having trunnion caps or guards 19, so that while thebuckets may maintain the vertically-axial positions irrespective of theinclined positions of the supporting-arms 16 they cannot be displacedfrom their engagements with such arms. The said rocking bar B has atoppositesides and between its ends pairs of separated ears 20 20,between which are pivoted. the connecting-rods 22 for the plungers 23,which work alternately vertically in the pair of pump-cylinders D D,which I cylinders, at their lower ends, are coupled with the casings 2424, in which are formed limping-chambers, and to which the inet-conduits25 lead, and from which the outlet-conduits 26 lead, the latter conduitshaving a joining-coupling 27, in connection with which is thedeliverypipe 28, which wlll usually be continued in an upward directionfor the delivery of the pumped water at a place higher than the locationof the pumping apparatus, and the said pump has checkvalves both in itsinlet and outlet conduitsections 25 and 26, as represented at 28 and 29,for the proper freedom of entrance and forced progression of the waterin the proper direction for delivery.'

E represents a water-delivery pipe for supplying the water from anysource-as a spring brook, or reservoirand the delivery end of this pipeis above and adjacent one of the side uprights 13, and pivotally mountedon such side upright 13 is an oscillatory and alternately reversingtrough F, the same, as shown, having oppositely-extended spouts 32 fordirecting the water received into the trough from the supplypipe E firstinto the one and then into the other of the buckets C C.

Each of the buckets has in its bottom an outlet-opening 33, provided forwhich is a valve a, having an enlarged circular head and an elongateddownwardly-tapering stem 35. Each valve a has connected therewith avalve-rod 36, extending upwardly therefrom through a guiding-eye 37 in ahorizontal arm 38, supported by the frame structure and terminatingabout over the center of the bucket. The upper extremity of thevalve-rod is screwthreaded, as represented at 39, receiving with ascrew-thread engagement thereabout a nut 40 to constitute a stop forlimiting the extent of downward movement of the valverod, and above eachof the stop-nuts 40 is a locking-nut 42, operable to against thestop-nut, and to insure the maintenance thereof in its adjustedposition.

Beneath the trough having the oppositelylocated spouts the rocking bar Bhas up wardly-projecting ears 43 43, pivoted to which are thrust-rods bb, the same having a crossed or X-like arrangement and having theirupper ends positioned for coaction with the opposite spout extensions ofthe trough F for successively reversing the position of the trough. Thesaid thrust-rods b b are Constrained in their crossed relations byhaving intermediate portions thereof embraced by a guiding eye or loop45, formed on the inner side of one side upright 13, and these stop-rodshave buffers 46, of non-metallic material and preferably a compressiblematerial, at their upper ends, so as to be noiseless in theirlimpactsagainst the reversible trough having the spouts.

The trough has a rigid member or leverlike extension 48, terminatingbelow the axispivot 49 of the trough, and said member 48 has acomparatively deep notch 50, in which is engaged the upper end of astrip of springsteel, which constitutes a spring-tongue 52 and which isrigidly secured at its lower portion to afixed part of the frame. Thisspring-tongue is for the purpose when one of the thrust-rods is forcingthe spout-trough to its reversed position of checking the trough fromhaving an excessive movement in the reversing direction, and also tocause a partial return motion of the trough immediately one of thethrustrods is withdrawn from proximity thereto and while the otherthrust-rod is approaching the trough at its opposite side.

In the adjustment of the parts the stops 40 of the valve-rods 36 arepositioned with regard to the length of rising and falling movements ofthe buckets, so that slightly before a bucket reaches the limit of itsdownward movement the movement of the valve-rod in unison with thebucket will be terminated, whereby in the completion of the downwardmovement of the bucket it is drawn down- Wardly away from the valve atherefor, permitting then the one bucket to be emptying While the otherbucket at the opposite side of the apparatus is becoming filled withwater.

Briefly describing the operation and assuming that the parts are in theposition represented in Fig. 1, the filled right-hand bucket havingdescended and elevated the left-hand one, such latter bucket in risingcarries its bottom having the valved seatopening upwardly to and to beclosed by the valve, and in the greater portion of the rising movementof this bucket the valve-stem 36 slides upwardly through the guiding-eye37.

The valve-rod stop for each bucket is to be so adjusted that the freedomof water discharge will be not too great, and so that an elevated bucketmay not too quickly preponderate over the lowered one, and it will beunderstood that concurrently with the elevation of the left-hand bucketone of the thrust-rods has its abutment against the under side of theright-hand portion of the trough, so that the latter is tilted to theposition shown in the drawings, and of course as one bucket becomesfilled and the other emptied reverse motions will be imparted to theapparatus, the spout tilting to the opposite side, and the oscillationsof the rocking bar B will reciprocate the pump-plungers and effect awaterdelivery from the brook or reservoir, in which the screenedpump-inlets are submerged, through. the delivery-pipe 28.

In order that an efficient water lubrication of the journals 15 of therocking bar and the trunnion-bearings of the buckets at the ends of thepairs of arms 16 16 may be accomplished, I so construct or adapt thetrough as to permit a flow of water downwardly from the central portionthereof onto the middle of the rocking bar, and such bar is formed withopposite side ribs 54, so that the water may not flow off sidewisetherefrom, except at the pro er pointsviz., through the notches 55 at t.e ends of the rocking bar for access to the rocking-bar journals 15 andalong the groove 56 in the tops of the bucketsupporting arms 16, alongwhich the water may flow to the bearings for the buckettrunnions-and itis also practicable by the making of sidewise openings 58 through themarginal rib 54 of the rocking bar between the ear-lugs 20 to cause adirection of the flow of some of the water brought onto the rocking barto the pivotal connections between the pump-plunger rods 22 and therocking-bar ear-lugs 20.

One or more perforations 59 through the central portion of the trough Fwill suffice for the delivery of enough water onto the rocking bar forthe lubrication of the several bearings, as explained.

As will be perceived in the drawings, the design and construction ofthis machine is such that the parts may be simply and cheaply producedand assembled and all without the requirement of much machinework.

I claim 1. In an apparatus of the character described, asupporting-frame, a rocking bar pivotally mounted therein and havingoppositely-located ear-lugs, and oppositelyextending pairs ofsupporting-arms 16, buckets, having trunnions, journal-supported on saidoppositely-extending pairs of arms, and having valve-closed openings intheir bottoms, valve-rod guides above the buckets, and

valve-rods having stops or portions thereof above the valve-rod guides,the pump comtherein, and rods connecting said plungers and the ear-lugsof the rocking bar.

2. In an apparatus of the character described, a supporting-frame, arocking bar pivotally mounted therein and having oppositely-locatedear-lugs, and oppositely-extending pairs ofsupporting-arms 16, buckets,having trunnions, journal-supported on said oppositely-extending pairsof arms, and having valve-closed openings in their bottoms, valve-rodguides above the buckets, and valve-rods having stops on portionsthereof above the valve-rod guides which are vertically adjustabie onsaid rods, the pump comprising double cylinders having plungers therein,and rods connecting said plungers and the ear-lugs of the rocking bar.

3. In an apparatus of the character described, a supporting-frame, arocking bar pivotally mounted therein and having oppositely-locatedear-lugs, and oppositely-extending pairs of supporting-arms 16, buckets,having trunnions, journal-supported on said oppositely-extending pairsof arms, and having valve-closed openings in their bottoms, valve-rodguides above the buckets, and valve-rods having stops on portionsthereof above the valve-rod guides which are vertically adjustable onsaid rods, the pump comprising double cylinders having plungers therein,and rods connecting said plungers and the ear-lugs of the rocking bar,awatersupply conduit delivering at the top of the apparatus, a troughpivotally mounted and reversible relatively to the oppositely-locatedbuckets, and thrust-rods connected to the rocking beam and operableagainst, and for successively reversing the trough.

4. In an apparatus of the character described, a supporting-frame, arocking bar pivotally mounted therein, having oppositely-locatedear-lugs, and oppositely-extending pairs of supporting-arms 16, bucketshaving trunnions journal supported on the oppositely-extending pairs ofarms, and having openings in their bottoms, and valves thereat eachconsisting of a circular head larger than the bucket-opening and adepending downwardly-tapering stem of less diameter than thebucket-opening, valve-rod guides above the buckets, and valve-rodsconnected to said valves, having stops on portions thereof above thevalve-rod guides, a pump comprising double cylinders having plungerstherein, and rods connecting said plungers and the ear-lugs of therocking bar.

5. In an apparatus of the character'de scribed, the combination with asupply-pipe, a rocking bar carrying the oppositely-located buckets, anda double-acting pump connected with and operated by said bar, ofapivotallymounted and reversible trough having oppositely-directingspouts, and thrust-rods having their lower extremities pivoted toopposite side portions of the rocking bar and having crossed relations,with their extremities adjacent opposite sides of the trough, andreversed from the respective pivotal connections of said rods.

, 6. In an apparatus of the character described, the combination with asupply-pipe, a rocking bar carrying the oppositely-located buckets, anda double-acting pump connected with and operated by said bar, ofapivotallymounted and reversible trough having oppositely-directingspouts, and thrust-rods having their lower extremities pivoted toopposite side portions of the rocking bar, and having crossed relations,with their extremities adjacent opposite sides of the trough, andprovided With the buffer 46 and a fixed loop or eye 45 embracing theintermediate and crossing portions of the thrust-rods.

7. In an apparatus of the character described, a supporting-frame, arocking-bar pivot ally mounted therein having oppositelyextending pairsof supporting-arms 16, buckets having trunnions journal-supported on theoppositely-extending pairs of arms, and having valve-closed openings intheir bottoms, valve-rod guides above the buckets, and valve-rods havingstops on portions thereof above the valve-rod guides, a pump comprisingdouble cylinders having plungers therein, and rods connecting saidplungers and the rocking bar, a pivotally-mounted trough having oppositespouts and a depend ing member made with a notch in its lower edge, anda vertically-arranged spring-tongue affixed to the frame and engaging inthe notch of said member.

8. In an apparatus of the character described, a rocking bar havingoppositely-extending pairs of bucket-supporting arms provided at theirextremities With bucket-trunnion journal-seats, and made with groovesextending from the top of the bar to such trunnion-journals, said barbeing constructed with marginal ribs having openings therethroughleading to the grooves in said arms, and having openings at the ends ofthe bar leading to adjacent the end journals of such bar, and means fordelivering water on the top of said rocking bar, for the purposes setforth.

9. In an apparatus of the character described, a double-cylinder pump,having plungers therein, a rocking bar having oppositelyextending pairsof bucket-supporting arms provided at their extremities withbuckettrunnion journal seats, and made with grooves extending from thetop of the bar to such trunnion-journals, said bar being constructedwith opposite ear-lugs, and with marginal ribs having openingstherethrough leading to the grooves in said arms, having openings at theends of the bar leading to ad- Signed by me at Springfield,Massachujacent the end journals of such bar, having I setts, in presenceof two subscribing Witopenings leading to adjacent said ear-lugs, lnesses. rods connecting the plungers in the pump- I cylinders With saidear-lugs, and means for i delivering Water onto the top of said rockingbar, for the purposes set forth. I

ALFRED E. JONES. Witnesses:

WM. S. BnLLows, G. R. DRISOOLL.

